>> yes, when we... when my grandparents came to stay with us. and there was that one year when our... this is one... i kid and say sometimes there are good things about being poor-- when our tv broke down, we couldn't fix it, so there was about a year or so when we had no television, and that's what we'd do is sat around and talked. and you know, my mom is a brilliant storyteller-- probably the best i've ever met. >> hinojosa: an actress, as well? >> my mom? oh, no, no, no. >> hinojosa: but you know... but in the sense that, i mean, isn't storytelling part of, you know, recre... >> yes, there is definitely performance to it, yeah. and she can tell her stories and entertain people for hours and hours. >> hinojosa: so when you talk to a young... let's say young latinos, and they're thinking, "i don't got nothing here," you're saying to them, "if you just think about the stories of your own lives, maybe it's there"? >> mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. absolutely, i mean, everybody has, you know, a trilogy of novels in their life. i mean, everyone's gotten deep